exhibit by abersons

michelle y williams | best laid plans-- new work

Kim Fonder — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:30:37 +0000

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michelle y williams

Kim Fonder — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:41:55 +0000

michelle y williams

new work..

show will open at exhibit by aberson on may 17th.

Morgan Robinson

Kim Fonder — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:42:33 +0000

Morgan Robinson is an artist from Stillwater,Oklahoma working primarily with wood and metal. He received his BFA in sculpture from the University of Central Oklahoma where he had the freedom to experiment with furniture as art. After finishing his bachelors degree he went and worked as a custom cabinet maker for 5 years. The cabinetry helped refine wood working skills and techniques. He then took advantage of an opportunity to further his skills traveling to Japan and learning traditional methods of wood working used for centuries. Upon returning back to his home town here in Stillwater. Morgan focuses on merging eastern philosophies of minimalism and sculptural form into a functional beautiful artistic statement to add to the quality in our daily lives.

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Jeri Eisenberg

Kim Fonder — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:34:30 +0000

By photographing her favorite treed landscapes with a purposefully oversized pinhole or a radically defocused lens, Eisenberg captures them as they are not often seen. The images are firmly grounded in the natural world, a particular place, a particular season, a particular time. But by obscuring detail, only the strongest brush strokes emerge: the images become sketches with light, literally and figuratively. "They float between there and not there", Eisenberg explains, "dissolving into abstraction and reconfiguring themselves into recognizable form. They are the trees seen through eyelashes of mostly closed eyes on bright sunny days; the trees seen through heavily falling snow; the trees of memory; the trees one might reach for before slipping from conscious life."

The very soft-focused, painterly images are printed digitally on delicate and translucent Japanese Kozo paper. The large-scale prints contain the barest hint of color in selected values, reminiscent of traditional split-toned photographs. Through the depiction of a succession of seasons, the work echoes life’s temporal cycles. "It succeeds for me" Eisenberg continues, "when it provides fragmentary glimpses of the beauty that exists in the everyday natural world, glimpses that console, even as they are tinged with a sadness of the awareness of their transience. If it provides a hint of the infinite and eternal in the here and now, I am all the more pleased."

Jeri Eisenberg: 'I feel no need to seek out grand vistas or exotic locales, majestic mountain ranges or rushing rivers. It is the common wooded landscape of my day-to-day life that captures my attention. The images are firmly grounded in the natural world, a particular place, a particular season, a particular time. But by obscuring detail, only the strongest brush strokes emerge: the images become sketches with light, literally and figuratively.'

Adam Shaw

Kim Fonder — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:13:32 +0000

Adam Shaw was born in New York City. He has been painting his entire life, and began working with oils in the mid 1970’s. His work is in many corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe. He was educated in the Renaissance tradition, receiving a B.A. in Classics, with a minor in Russian and Italian. In 1979 and 1980 he lived in Italy, in Florence and Urbino, studying art history. In 1981 he moved to San Francisco to pursue a Master’s degree in Poetics. Following that he became a physician and was in private practice for 14 years. He has taught workshops and lectured at numerous institutions, including Palmer College and the College of Marin. He has published a number of his own poems and has translated poetry from Latin, Russian and Italian.

Aileen Chong

Kim Fonder — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:51:12 +0000

My work suggests a dialogue about cultural fusion rooted in personal experiences and is manifested through abstraction. The intent is to establish these recollections in a visceral manner rather than overtly. Metaphorically, they offer a visual pathway to exploring emotions. Each one is like a fingerprint of my emotional state of mind. My background as a female Chinese Peruvian growing up in Long Island, New York, has played a significant role in my body of work.

The majority of my grandparents were born in China and, although, having more of an Asian descent, the primary language growing up was Spanish. My father is the only one who can speak both languages, but did not push learning Chinese onto me. As a child, I did not have a strong gravitation towards one ethnicity or the other, but did feel a closer sense to my Peruvian side because I knew the language. The experience of these multi-cultural dichotomies and its customs and traditions with the values of American life brought a fractured sense of identity.

The process I developed fuses conscious and accidental methods of painting. Organic forms come naturally and create harmonious fluidity throughout the piece. I utilize the liquefied and unpredictable nature of paint by often increasing its viscosity. Gravity and surface variances pull the medium into multiplicity of directions. I work in numerous layers which help create depth and make conscious decisions about leaving parts visible, obscuring or covering up areas. The reaction between combining certain oil mediums is unpredictable and can manipulate how a piece turns out. The first few layers are completed in acrylic paint to create and build up various textures. At this stage, I incorporate India ink, also water based, to create the calligraphic lines and marks. In Chinese culture, ink is widely used in writing and in art form because it is a way to express the uniqueness of an individual’s thoughts and emotions. Circles are used in my paintings because it is a symbol of the cycle of life and it represents the balance that is sought out in one’s life between good and bad. Then I transition to working with oil paint, which brings the richness, transparency and luminosity qualities I am seeking to the surface. I title my paintings in Spanish because it represents a part of my identity and it was the language instilled in me, which I can understand and speak on a proficient level. With the complexity of paint application and layering techniques, composition and color palette, it offers the viewer a tangible document of the visual language which I am building.

Tim Liddy

Kim Fonder — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:58:56 +0000

With this recent work, I initially wanted to create a time capsule of the boardgames Americans played — focusing on the design, gender stereotypes, social themes, and evolution. I document the box tops or covers. There were some strange and very  questionable social/political decisions made within the themes and designs of these  games. It was the times we lived in then. By re-contextualizing the subject you can  really see them anew.  They are as much sculpture as they are paintings. Primarily on copper or steel, they are in the size of the original (although some are fictional). Everything, including the  tape, stains, and tears are documented and archival. It's become a bit of an obsession.

Find more of Tim's work here:http://abersonexhibits.com/artists/tim-liddy

Mel DeWees opens March 22,6 until 8 p.m.

Kim Fonder — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:44:52 +0000

exhibit is pleased to welcome Houston based artist Mel DeWees on Thursday March 22. DeWees's rich surfaces and line quality are outstanding.

exhibit artists ... with furnishings from SR Hughes

Kim Fonder — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:22:09 +0000

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Kim Fonder — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:21:52 +0000

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